Fwupd 1.9.7 with help for different Logitech, Synaptics and Western Digital merchandise
Richard Hughes from Pink Hat has launched a brand new model of Fwupd 1.9.7. As is customary, the venture is including help for different units that may be up to date with firmware from Linux due to Fwupd and the LVFS service. However there’s additionally help for the necessities of kid units written within the metadata, multiple BKC, parsing of cupboard archives with out the necessity for an exterior library libgcab or enhancements for eMMC and fixing quite a few bugs.
Newly supported units embody the Logitech Rally System household, PixartRF HPAC units, a number of Synaptics Prometheus fingerprint readers, some eMMC options from Western Digital, and merchandise constructed on the VIA VL830 and VL832.
OpenRazer 3.7 provides help for 12 extra units
There aren’t any particular enhancements within the performance of the brand new model of the OpenRazer bundle for (not solely) Razer keyboards, mice and laptops, however the authors have added help for quite a few different merchandise of this in style gaming model. Some bugs have been fastened, the OpenRazer daemon has been barely improved, and the mouse code has been cleaned up. OpenRazer 3.7 now helps the next merchandise:
- Razer Laptop computer Stand Chroma V2
- Razer DeathStalker (Important)
- Razer Blade 15 (2023)
- Razer DeathAdder V3
- Razer Blade 16 (2023)
- Razer Blade 18 (2023)
- Razer Ornata V3 (PID 0×02A2)
- Razer Viper Mini SE
- Razer Cobra Professional
- Razer BlackWidow V4
- Razer Naga V2 HyperSpeed (Receiver)
- Razer Viper V3 HyperSpeed
XWayland helps higher switching between OpenGL and OpenGL ES
XWayland obtained a brand new command line swap -glamor. With its assist, it’s simpler to change between utilizing “full-fat” OpenGL and the OpenGL ES variant for {hardware} acceleration of content material. Amongst different issues, this solves the earlier observe the place XWayland routinely tried OpenGL first. Extra detailed info is summarized within the merge request of this information.
KVM in Linux 6.7 provides LoongArch and as much as 4096 x86 vCPUs
Because the launch of Linux 6.6 has taken place, work is in full swing on the following model 6.7. KVM kernel virtualization, for instance, will obtain help for Chinese language processors of the LoongArch structure (it’s described as similar to MIPS, from which LoongArch ISA is predicated). On the x86 array, the restrict of the variety of digital CPU cores will once more be elevated to 4,096 (configuration merchandise CONFIG_KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS) with the choice to set a decrease default depend to keep away from excessive reminiscence consumption.
As well as, virtualization will help the answer of AMD Inception/SRSO errors in six-seven. There will even be fixes for KVM x86 Safe Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), Smstateen and Zicond extension help for RISC-V, and varied different enhancements together with issues for ARM architectures. Summarizes the main points Paolo Bonzini from Pink Hat within the merge request.
Newer Intel Arc driver for Ubuntu
Final 12 months Intel got here out with a prepared driver bundle for its Arc household graphics cores for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in addition to Ubuntu 23.04 or later. It bundled a kernel driver with backported information and a Mesa driver, which was a approach to supply customers of in style distributions a easy approach to run the ever-evolving upstream help for these playing cards.
Now comes the replace of this bundle after a very long time. It isn’t accompanied by any overview of stories, though Phoronix provides that help has been added for the 14th era Core processors that have been just lately launched. The bundle continues to help the previous built-in options of the eleventh era Tiger Lake household. However the bundle is meant for the already talked about older variations of Ubuntu, the just lately launched Ubuntu 23.10 with a mixture of Linux 6.5 + Mesa 23.2 already receives every little thing wanted routinely as a result of nature of newer variations of the kernel and Mesa.
FreeBSD 14 nonetheless with drivers for ISA
Resulting from some delay, the FreeBSD venture is delaying the removing of ISA bus help. Even the upcoming FreeBSD 14 will proceed to help ISA, with drivers for non-PnP and GIANT-locked playing cards. It ought to due to this fact be explicitly talked about that, for instance, help for quite a few PnP sound playing cards with an ISA interface has already been eliminated (in any case, it was typically reported that particular playing cards not work for over 10 years). A lot for the information of the event model of FreeBSD 14.0-rc4. The completed launch of FreeBSD 14.0 is deliberate for November 14, i.e. in a little bit over every week.
The alpha model of KDE Plasma 6.0 is coming
As you learn these strains, it has been two days since Nate Graham wrote, that in two days the alpha model of Plasma 6.0 will probably be launched and the builders are feverishly ending, even earlier than this Gentle Freeze occasion they obtained every little thing doable into the code. The ultimate freezing of the code will happen in just a few weeks, nonetheless, beginning subsequent week, not the present technique of including performance, however the technique of correcting, debugging, and sprucing the code of the long run Plasma 6.0 will begin to run. Among the many information, Nate mentions quite a few issues in Uncover, system settings, Plasma types, widgets, transitions and dialogs.
